diff --git a/test/testenv/testenv.ww b/test/testenv/testenv.ww
index 0403128f..22e59425 100644
--- a/test/testenv/testenv.ww
+++ b/test/testenv/testenv.ww
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ package testenv;
 // test/package/package_test.ww idiom — not a framework: callers own
 // discovery, assertions, and verdicts.
 
+import endian;
 import os;
 import os.exec;
 import strings;
@@ -153,6 +154,35 @@ export fn same(a: str, b: str) bool = {
 	return true;
 };
 
+// The ELF observers under test/object read header fields straight out
+// of readfile's byte-carrying str; these getters reinterpret it as
+// bytes and route through endian's canonical little-endian readers
+// instead of re-deriving the bit math. u64 uniformly so one call
+// shape covers u16/u32/u64 fields; callers narrow for offset math.
+export fn leu16(s: str, off: i32) u64 = {
+	let b: []u8;
+	b.ptr = &s.ptr[off];
+	b.len = 2;
+	b.cap = 2;
+	return endian.legetu16(b): u64;
+};
+
+export fn leu32(s: str, off: i32) u64 = {
+	let b: []u8;
+	b.ptr = &s.ptr[off];
+	b.len = 4;
+	b.cap = 4;
+	return endian.legetu32(b): u64;
+};
+
+export fn leu64(s: str, off: i32) u64 = {
+	let b: []u8;
+	b.ptr = &s.ptr[off];
+	b.len = 8;
+	b.cap = 8;
+	return endian.legetu64(b);
+};
+
 export fn occurrences(haystack: str, needle: str) i32 = {
 	if (needle.len == 0 || haystack.len < needle.len) { return 0; };
 	let count: i32 = 0;